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Write $\kappa =\sqrt{2m{V}_0}/\hslash$ and $q=\kappa a$. At low energy, the $S$ wave normally dominates. Under the additional stated near-resonance assumption $ka\ll |{\delta }_0|$, neglect $ka$ inside the cotangent of the matching condition and set $k^{\prime }\simeq \kappa$:Substitution in ${\sigma }_0=4\pi {\sin }^2{\delta }_0/k^2$ givesThis is a near-resonance square-well approximation, not a uniform formula for every well radius. A phase shift is defined modulo $\pi$; its representative must be chosen consistently when applying the comparison with $ka$.